Is Christian Science contradictory? Is the divine
Principle of creation misstated? Has God no Science to
declare Mind, while matter is governed by unerring
intelligence? "There went up a mist
from the earth." This represents error as
starting from an idea of good on a material basis. It
supposes God and man to be manifested only through
the corporeal senses, although the material senses can
take no cognizance of Spirit or the spiritual idea.

Genesis and the Apocalypse seem more obscure than
other portions of the Scripture, because they cannot
possibly be interpreted from a material standpoint. To
the author, they are transparent, for they contain the deep
divinity of the Bible.